Aminatta Forna Quotes
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.Aminatta Forna
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
Takeru Kobayashi -
I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
Zachary Levi -
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde -
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra -
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
Taylor Swift -
I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
Camille Paglia
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg -
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
Olivia Colman -
I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
Harrison Ford -
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
Dan Glickman -
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
Mandy Patinkin -
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
Vikram Seth
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard -
If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
Rafe Spall -
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
Patricia Schroeder -
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Yoko Ono -
The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
Angelus Silesius -
You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.
Neil Patrick Harris -
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
A. E. van Vogt -
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy -
Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.
Dave Kopel -
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
Aminatta Forna